OT - Rant

[Dr. Pringles]

Wow. The office just quoted me $6000 to get out of my lease. The fuck? Thankfully the woman I spoke with also gave me a hint that I could complain to corporate and get out without the fees. This entire situation is a shitshow.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Wow. The office just quoted me $6000 to get out of my lease. The fuck? Thankfully the woman I spoke with also gave me a hint that I could complain to corporate and get out without the fees. This entire situation is a shitshow.

Can't you just call the police?
In Germany this is quite a normal procedure if people are too noisy in the night when people are supposed to sleep.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

No cellular reception where I work.
I have to use the WiFi at work to post on D-Pad.
Twitter is blocked here.
Can't see all the articles and pictures in the World section.
Don't have much time outside of work to post here.

Fuck this! I was in the fucking DESERT in Israel and had flawless 4G. I drove through Poland and had never worse reception than 3G. But here in Germany we have massive problems. From work to my home, which is a one hour drive, there are four areas where I don't have any mobile internet and can barely have a continuous call with someone. What a shit show.

No joke, I wanted to like your post afew minutes ago, but couldn't because no reception in that metro station I was sitting in.
Now, in the train, it works, though.

 

[Dr. Pringles]

Can't you just call the police?
In Germany this is quite a normal procedure if people are too noisy in the night when people are supposed to sleep.

I haven't made a formal complaint, but I have spoken with them. Essentially the cops would have to hear the music, and it would have to be after 11 at night. On top of that, I don't want to deal with the cops unless it becomes necessary. I would rather go through the office first. I'm okay with writing a letter to corporate.

 

[regawdless]

Man my current boss (owner of the company) is such a dumb cunt.

I got told yesterday, that I'll have to attend a trade fair today. So I looked it up online, to prepare. Turns out, yesterday was the last day of the fair. I inform my colleagues about it. Boom, our company owner calls me, telling me that he mixed up the days of the week, that I have to drive there right now (2.5hrs in one direction) to attend for two hours before it closes. So my superior and I had to leave all of our current tasks, cancel meetings and immediately drive there. We came back at 9pm.

Which makes my blood boil, because it was a small and rather unimportant fair. And this year, I asked to attend three important ones - got completely ignored.

What an unorganized bunch of idiots.

 

[Ornlu]

Man my current boss (owner of the company) is such a dumb cunt.

I got told yesterday, that I'll have to attend a trade fair today. So I looked it up online, to prepare. Turns out, yesterday was the last day of the fair. I inform my colleagues about it. Boom, our company owner calls me, telling me that he mixed up the days of the week, that I have to drive there right now (2.5hrs in one direction) to attend for two hours before it closes. So my superior and I had to leave all of our current tasks, cancel meetings and immediately drive there. We came back at 9pm.

Which makes my blood boil, because it was a small and rather unimportant fair. And this year, I asked to attend three important ones - got completely ignored.

What an unorganized bunch of idiots.

I feel the same way at my company. Every year in my city we have a Labor Day 'Truck Parade', where all the local businesses with their own trucks/equipment drive down the main street through my city and the next one over. It's fun, and the companies pay like $100 a truck to be in it. A whole bunch of people go out and watch it.

My company refuses to have anything to do with it, out of laziness. I've pushed to make it happen about 5 times now, and every time I get a different excuse:

Me: "It's cheap advertising, we should do it!"
Them: "Oh, we would need to know the expense..."

Me: "It's $100 for 40,000 people to see your name and awesome truck"
Them: "Oh we'd need to make sure we have a driver available..."

Me: "It's $100, I personally talked to one of our drivers; he wants to do it"
Them: "Well, we'll have to discuss this before we make a decision..."

Fucking hell, just tell me no and to fuck off.

 

[regawdless]

I feel the same way at my company. Every year in my city we have a Labor Day 'Truck Parade', where all the local businesses with their own trucks/equipment drive down the main street through my city and the next one over. It's fun, and the companies pay like $100 a truck to be in it. A whole bunch of people go out and watch it.

My company refuses to have anything to do with it, out of laziness. I've pushed to make it happen about 5 times now, and every time I get a different excuse:

Me: "It's cheap advertising, we should do it!"
Them: "Oh, we would need to know the expense..."

Me: "It's $100 for 40,000 people to see your name and awesome truck"
Them: "Oh we'd need to make sure we have a driver available..."

Me: "It's $100, I personally talked to one of our drivers; he wants to do it"
Them: "Well, we'll have to discuss this before we make a decision..."

Fucking hell, just tell me no and to fuck off.

While at the same time, I'm pretty sure they spend 100 bucks somewhere for complete unnecessary BS all the time. That's how it works lol

 

[Ornlu]

While at the same time, I'm pretty sure they spend 100 bucks somewhere for complete unnecessary BS all the time. That's how it works lol

100%. They spent $1000's on billboards/local ads this spring to have a big job fair...six fucking people bothered to show up. Six. Granted that's mostly because of larger problems in my current clown country. But they were fine throwing money away for that.

 

[slugbahr]

I feel the same way at my company. Every year in my city we have a Labor Day 'Truck Parade', where all the local businesses with their own trucks/equipment drive down the main street through my city and the next one over. It's fun, and the companies pay like $100 a truck to be in it. A whole bunch of people go out and watch it.

My company refuses to have anything to do with it, out of laziness. I've pushed to make it happen about 5 times now, and every time I get a different excuse:

Me: "It's cheap advertising, we should do it!"
Them: "Oh, we would need to know the expense..."

Me: "It's $100 for 40,000 people to see your name and awesome truck"
Them: "Oh we'd need to make sure we have a driver available..."

Me: "It's $100, I personally talked to one of our drivers; he wants to do it"
Them: "Well, we'll have to discuss this before we make a decision..."

Fucking hell, just tell me no and to fuck off.

You sound like a nagger.
No wonder no one likes you.

 

[Soodanim]

100%. They spent $1000's on billboards/local ads this spring to have a big job fair...six fucking people bothered to show up. Six. Granted that's mostly because of larger problems in my current clown country. But they were fine throwing money away for that.

Obviously your idea that was both much cheaper and a much better value proposition was shit, because it wasn't his idea.

 

[regawdless]

Obviously your idea that was both much cheaper and a much better value proposition was shit, because it wasn't his idea.

Gotta make your boss feel like he came up with it and give him the spotlight. That's how we have to do it in our company and it's ridiculous.

 

[Soodanim]

Gotta make your boss feel like he came up with it and give him the spotlight. That's how we have to do it in our company and it's ridiculous.

It's so weird that people's egos get in the way like that. Too much bollocksing around with subtle manipulation when they could save so much time and effort for everyone.

 

[HariSeldon]

On the good idea being ignored front - many years ago I was doing a shitty job and suggested a better way to do things with their main product. They rejected the idea so I left and started my own company doing that thing, incorporating my plan (this was nightclub photography in the 00s - I suggested extending the product range and creating a social media site for it but they weren't having it). So I built software to speed up production and allow more flexibility and allow us to pump out content super-fast, and built a social network to go with it. With a venue 1/3 of the size we made more money than they did. That shit funded me through uni and I had a cracking time.

TLDR: Don't like how they do business? Go and show them how it's done better.

 

[Ornlu]

On the good idea being ignored front - many years ago I was doing a shitty job and suggested a better way to do things with their main product. They rejected the idea so I left and started my own company doing that thing, incorporating my plan (this was nightclub photography in the 00s - I suggested extending the product range and creating a social media site for it but they weren't having it). So I built software to speed up production and allow more flexibility and allow us to pump out content super-fast, and built a social network to go with it. With a venue 1/3 of the size we made more money than they did. That shit funded me through uni and I had a cracking time.

TLDR: Don't like how they do business? Go and show them how it's done better.

Now sell your product to your old company at 10X the cost of what it would have been to implement in the first place.

 

[HariSeldon]

Now sell your product to your old company at 10X the cost of what it would have been to implement in the first place.

Smartphones pretty much killed the potential for it tbh. They did actually try to get in touch about it but they didn't offer acceptable terms.

 

[regawdless]

GOD DAMN MY WIFE.

So my father in law and I are building a new, desperately needed bathroom. Already removed over 1.5 tons of shit, tiles, a wall, cut out a space for a window etc.

But mah BELOVED wife continues to be such an aggressive and unthankful .... Human being, that even her own parents, who are literally angels and do everything for us, are hating her now. Refuse to help us anymore and I'm lost without my father in law, because he's an expert in building shit.

So now I have tons of shit that I bought for the bathroom, can't do it myself because I don't have the knowledge or even the time, and don't have an additional at least 15k to pay someone to do it for me.

And I told her just fucking yesterday to behave and stop being a total bitch. Fast forward next morning, she screws up everything.

Thanks Obama.

 

[Dr. Pringles]

GOD DAMN MY WIFE.

So my father in law and I are building a new, desperately needed bathroom. Already removed over 1.5 tons of shit, tiles, a wall, cut out a space for a window etc.

But mah BELOVED wife continues to be such an aggressive and unthankful .... Human being, that even her own parents, who are literally angels and do everything for us, are hating her now. Refuse to help us anymore and I'm lost without my father in law, because he's an expert in building shit.

So now I have tons of shit that I bought for the bathroom, can't do it myself because I don't have the knowledge or even the time, and don't have an additional at least 15k to pay someone to do it for me.

And I told her just fucking yesterday to behave and stop being a total bitch. Fast forward next morning, she screws up everything.

Thanks Obama.

Are you down to studs? Do you have everything roughed in? Youtube is a pretty good source of construction information depending on how far you've gotten.

 

[regawdless]

Are you down to studs? Do you have everything roughed in? Youtube is a pretty good source of construction information depending on how far you've gotten.

The room ist totally naked, just the old water installation is still in. Needs to be removed, then install a new one in a different place. With a place to shower, nothing like that there before. Need to do the electric installation as well from scratch. Then the roof, new tiles, door, install a window, everything.

Sure I could do a learning by doing project, but I have to start working again in 1.5 weeks and it'll take longer than that on my own. Outside of work, with three small kids, I won't have that much time.

Sucks big time. Working on different solutions right now.

 

[and 3 others]

The room ist totally naked, just the old water installation is still in. Needs to be removed, then install a new one in a different place. With a place to shower, nothing like that there before. Need to do the electric installation as well from scratch. Then the roof, new tiles, door, install a window, everything.

Sure I could do a learning by doing project, but I have to start working again in 1.5 weeks and it'll take longer than that on my own. Outside of work, with three small kids, I won't have that much time.

Sucks big time. Working on different solutions right now.

Stay strong brother.

 

[regawdless]

Stay strong brother.

Add to that the emotional component of my 5 year old daughter and her grandpa being soulmates, with her now being exposed to all the drama, crying, not wanting to come home etc.

And all the other relationship drama.

 

[Ornlu]

Add to that the emotional component of my 5 year old daughter and her grandpa being soulmates, with her now being exposed to all the drama, crying, not wanting to come home etc.

And all the other relationship drama.

Maybe convince gramps to come over and do it for the grandkids sake? Make it clear that your wife will not be present, and he will probably be willing to come back once tempers cool.

 

[regawdless]

Maybe convince gramps to come over and do it for the grandkids sake? Make it clear that your wife will not be present, and he will probably be willing to come back once tempers cool.

I'll definitely need to find some common ground with him. But then there's mah wife, having special requirements for the bathroom, so she needs to get involved. If we do it and she doesn't like it, she won't shut up about it and continue to make a scene.

You know, very important decoration and design stuff.

 

[Ornlu]

I'll definitely need to find some common ground with him. But then there's mah wife, having special requirements for the bathroom, so she needs to get involved. If we do it and she doesn't like it, she won't shut up about it and continue to make a scene.

You know, very important decoration and design stuff.

This sounds more and more like an Ike Turner situation.

Spoiler

 

[regawdless]

Solved the short term issue. We will continue together on Monday, wife will stfu. We lost 3 days due to this shit, but we'll continue.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Solved the short term issue. We will continue together on Monday, wife will stfu. We lost 3 days due to this shit, but we'll continue.

Damn, dude. I don't know how you do it. I mean it. I'd have killed my wife if she was anything like what you're describing (and she'd have killed me if I behaved like that). Like, dead and body fed to the pigs years ago. We don't always see eye to eye, but by and large we almost never argue or even get more than simply irritated with each other. That just sounds like hell, tbh.

Anywho, onto my latest rant...

Why the fuck do so many developers feel the need to punish their paying customers? Why is it that, aside from multiplayer games, you will often have a much better experience with a game you pirated than one you paid for? I mean, you buy the game, then you get to deal with DRM and associated spyware and shitty performance, and/or having to sign into a separate account, and/or shitty policies like not being able to play the game/DLC when the client is in offline mode. Makes me want to simply start pirating games full time going forward, if I'm being honest. Shit is just so frustrating sometimes.

 

[Dr. Pringles]

Update on apartment situation.

Last week, the neighbors claimed that I was blasting loud music and smoking drugs in my apartment. A few days later, a maintenance man came in and did a 'spot assessment' to see if I was smoking. They also checked the neighbor's apartment. The maintenance guy told me my apartment smelled fine (he did mention animal smell [I do own a cat] but no smoke smell). I asked him what the neighbor's apartment was like, and he responded that it smelled like a Cheech and Chong festival.

I hope this will resolve something, maybe an eviction for the neighbors, but said neighbors say all drug smells are coming from my apartment. Their lease is about to end (renewal time), and I think they might be trying to cover themselves, so they don't have to pay any fees for the smell of weed.

I've ended up moving all of my stuff into the dining room. I feel like I'm living in a studio or something at this point.

I also had a pizza stolen from my front door, lmao. The delivery guy said he saw a guy take it, and when I asked the delivery guy to describe the person, he gave a detailed description of the troublesome neighbor.

 

[Mickmrly]

Update on apartment situation.

Last week, the neighbors claimed that I was blasting loud music and smoking drugs in my apartment. A few days later, a maintenance man came in and did a 'spot assessment' to see if I was smoking. They also checked the neighbor's apartment. The maintenance guy told me my apartment smelled fine (he did mention animal smell [I do own a cat] but no smoke smell). I asked him what the neighbor's apartment was like, and he responded that it smelled like a Cheech and Chong festival.

I hope this will resolve something, maybe an eviction for the neighbors, but said neighbors say all drug smells are coming from my apartment. Their lease is about to end (renewal time), and I think they might be trying to cover themselves, so they don't have to pay any fees for the smell of weed.

I've ended up moving all of my stuff into the dining room. I feel like I'm living in a studio or something at this point.

I also had a pizza stolen from my front door, lmao. The delivery guy said he saw a guy take it, and when I asked the delivery guy to describe the person, he gave a detailed description of the troublesome neighbor.

Next time you order pizza just stand outside your front door with a sandal/shoe and if the neighbour tries to interfere, punish him for his recklessness.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Update on apartment situation.

Last week, the neighbors claimed that I was blasting loud music and smoking drugs in my apartment. A few days later, a maintenance man came in and did a 'spot assessment' to see if I was smoking. They also checked the neighbor's apartment. The maintenance guy told me my apartment smelled fine (he did mention animal smell [I do own a cat] but no smoke smell). I asked him what the neighbor's apartment was like, and he responded that it smelled like a Cheech and Chong festival.

I hope this will resolve something, maybe an eviction for the neighbors, but said neighbors say all drug smells are coming from my apartment. Their lease is about to end (renewal time), and I think they might be trying to cover themselves, so they don't have to pay any fees for the smell of weed.

I've ended up moving all of my stuff into the dining room. I feel like I'm living in a studio or something at this point.

I also had a pizza stolen from my front door, lmao. The delivery guy said he saw a guy take it, and when I asked the delivery guy to describe the person, he gave a detailed description of the troublesome neighbor.

The next pizza you order, put in the special instructions: "Please piss, shit, and/or jizz all over this pizza. There's a big tip in it for the driver and the rest of the prep staff."

 

[regawdless]

Damn, dude. I don't know how you do it. I mean it. I'd have killed my wife if she was anything like what you're describing (and she'd have killed me if I behaved like that). Like, dead and body fed to the pigs years ago. We don't always see eye to eye, but by and large we almost never argue or even get more than simply irritated with each other. That just sounds like hell, tbh.

The marriage is hell tbh, she's an aggressive psycho and we are extremely close to divorcing, but trying to hang in there for the kids.

Keeps escalating though. Life's hard.

 

[Mickmrly]

The marriage is hell tbh, she's an aggressive psycho and we are extremely close to divorcing, but trying to hang in there for the kids.

Keeps escalating though. Life's hard.

Does she at least appreciate your funny side? I just don't know how such irreconcilable situations can happen, wish you all the best.

 

[Dr. Pringles]

Next time you order pizza just stand outside your front door with a sandal/shoe and if the neighbour tries to interfere, punish him for his recklessness.

The next pizza you order, put in the special instructions: "Please piss, shit, and/or jizz all over this pizza. There's a big tip in it for the driver and the rest of the prep staff."

Dominos will wait for me to answer the door from now on. I don't want to get into any spat with these kooks. I am slowly saving money to get out of the lease early.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Dominos will wait for me to answer the door from now on. I don't want to get into any spat with these kooks. I am slowly saving money to get out of the lease early.

Fine, fine, be the bigger man. But, might I make one other suggestion then? What if... the next time you interact with them, you do so while proudly sporting nothing but your Pringles cock armor? I bet that would cause them to rethink all of their questionable behavior to date.

 

[Dr. Pringles]

Fine, fine, be the bigger man. But, might I make one other suggestion then? What if... the next time you interact with them, you do so while proudly sporting nothing but your Pringles cock armor? I bet that would cause them to rethink all of their questionable behavior to date.

Believe me; if I didn't have to worry about police and/or prosecution, I would be leaving them a daily dose of shit straight from my anus right on their front door. As it is, I will work this out the only way I can, and that's by complete and total avoidance.

I don't get why they're doing what they're doing. When I first moved in, they were the friendliest and most welcoming neighbors. I'm super quiet too. I usually watch TV on my laptop and only have one tv in my living room. I don't get what's annoying them to the point that they would make shit up.

 

[Ornlu]

Like I said before; a full body weight size 13 kick busting their door anonymously in the middle of the night with no explanation would settle them right the fuck down.

 

[regawdless]

Does she at least appreciate your funny side? I just don't know how such irreconcilable situations can happen, wish you all the best.

Short version:

She's a total narcissist who gets crazy aggro when stuff doesn't exactly goes like she wants it to. She was basically hiding her crazyness enough to marry me, have kids, a house and enslave me. Making me responsible for all her issues, so regarding my humor - imagine your worse enemy making a joke. You respect it, but won't laugh.

Fun times. I was a naive idiot to not see it, but love my kids too much to leave them alone with her because she's cookie crazy.

 

[Ornlu]

Short version:

She's a total narcissist who gets crazy aggro when stuff doesn't exactly goes like she wants it to. She was basically hiding her crazyness enough to marry me, have kids, a house and enslave me. Making me responsible for all her issues, so regarding my humor - imagine your worse enemy making a joke. You respect it, but won't laugh.

Fun times. I was a naive idiot to not see it, but love my kids too much to leave them alone with her because she's cookie crazy.

Completely unrelated question, but do you happen to be pouring a foundation for your construction project? How's the life insurance policy looking?

 

[Dr. Pringles]

Short version:

She's a total narcissist who gets crazy aggro when stuff doesn't exactly goes like she wants it to. She was basically hiding her crazyness enough to marry me, have kids, a house and enslave me. Making me responsible for all her issues, so regarding my humor - imagine your worse enemy making a joke. You respect it, but won't laugh.

Fun times. I was a naive idiot to not see it, but love my kids too much to leave them alone with her because she's cookie crazy.

So most women in the 21st century?

 

[regawdless]

So most women in the 21st century?

Yes, but taken to comically absurd levels that no one would believe.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Had some fucker walk by my back fence during the night and bust one of the fence boards the other day. Then a few nights later, someone (presumably the same person) came by and fully kicked it in. Just last night another one was staved in. Wtf is wrong with people? Makes me want to camp out in my backyard overnight, .44 in hand.

 

[Pumpkin Seeds]

Like about everyone, I hate when companies outsource customer service to a foreign country. English as a third language sort of deal. No clearer message about how little you care about your customers than sending them to someone who can't be understood.

And they can understand English. But speaking it is another matter. And they only say what is on the prompt.

Today I had this gal who clearly was taught English by someone from Wisconsin. That or for some unknown reason she decided she should model her English after some sort of Wisconsin/Canadian hybrid.

She dragged out every syllable. A vowel took multiple seconds. It was an ungodly mix of Indian and Canuckian Dontcha Know. It was like hearing Avasarala
from The Expanse do a Swedish Chef impersonation. She went into a compound sentence and the only part I understood was "and" because the and took 5 seconds and then it was horgishporgish.